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136 Adams St

ID: 3646 ~ Source: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.

This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 116 Adams Street

This house was sold at auction in September 1941.


This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 116 Adams Street

Bloomingdale Tour: 116 Adams Street

By Prologue DC
African Americans began moving to the 100 block of Adams Street around 1925, despite covenants on some properties. At least nine houses on the block were the subject of lawsuits brought by white…

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